I have telnet and http system admin's access to a cobalt raq server. If I set a users disc space allowance to say, x megabytes, here is something that happens a lot: The user will say that they are unable to upload and they are getting the message that their disc space quota has been exceeded, but, even though I instruct the user to delete nonessential files to bring the disk space used under the quota, they are still getting the disk space quota exceeded. I have done this myself on my own web site on this same server. I was hitting the quota, and so I deleted serveral mp3s, bringing the total way under the quota, yet I am still getting "disk space exceeded". How can I resolve this?

Also, even as sysadmin, I am not able to delete user ftp logs, caches, etc from the server (which I am suspecting are taking up user's disk space, no?). I have tried the chown and chmod, to no avail. Users are unable to delete their own ftp logs, nor are they able to download them. Solution?

Best,
patrick

you might run quotacheck as root. for help with this command:
man quotacheck